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New Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Release Of “Handful of Keys”

[easyazon_link identifier=”B000002ARB” locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Jazz at Lincoln Center[/easyazon_link]’s [easyazon_link identifier=”B01MR5V165″ locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Blue Engine Records[/easyazon_link] today announced the release of [easyazon_link identifier=”B072BH49LZ” locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Handful of Keys[/easyazon_link] on September 15, 2017, a live recording of performances that captured 100 years of jazz piano in one night in Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Today, the first single from [easyazon_link identifier=”B072BH49LZ” locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Handful of Keys[/easyazon_link], “The Strawberry,” is available for streaming and download on all mass-market digital platforms. The album is also available to preorder on [easyazon_link identifier=”B000002ARB” locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Jazz at Lincoln Center[/easyazon_link]’s newly relaunched webstore, both as a standalone CD and as a deluxe bundle featuring limited-edition Jazz at Lincoln Center gear and a ticket discount for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th Anniversary Season-opening concerts.

From rising stars to living legends, pianists Joey Alexander, Dick Hyman, Myra Melford, Helen Sung, Isaiah J. Thompson, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s own Dan Nimmer grab hold of all 88 keys and reveal the full breadth of the piano’s evolution over the 20th century. With guests ranging in age from 13-year-old prodigy Alexander to 89-year-old American treasure Hyman, [easyazon_link identifier=”B0013DC7O0″ locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Wynton Marsalis[/easyazon_link] and the JLCO survey jazz piano’s past and give the stage to several prodigies who are taking the instrument in bold new directions.

[easyazon_link identifier=”B072BH49LZ” locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Handful of Keys[/easyazon_link] captures the sold-out 2016-17 season opening concerts featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with [easyazon_link identifier=”B0013DC7O0″ locale=”US” tag=”harlemworld-20″]Wynton Marsalis[/easyazon_link] and six virtuoso pianists representing the many styles of jazz and both the music’s past and its future. The title, Handful of Keys, references an efflorescent 1929 Fats Waller composition that is a signpost of early jazz piano. This release showcases a band in full “stride,” burning through electric arrangements of beloved compositions from James P. Johnson, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, and more.